Biotech startups in Bengaluru

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Founded 1978; India's largest biopharmaceutical company and the anchor of Bengaluru's biotech cluster. Evolved from industrial enzymes into integrated biologics — biosimilar insulins, antibodies and generic ...

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon subsidiary)

Founded 1993; publicly listed Biocon subsidiary operating as a contract research, development and manufacturing organisation (CRDMO) serving global pharma and biotech clients in discovery, development and ma...

Tuhin Bhowmick & Arun Chandru

Founded 2011; tissue-engineering and regenerative-medicine company building 3D-bioprinted human tissues and exosome/programmable-tissue therapies — including a corneal-regeneration therapy advancing to clini...

Anand Anandkumar, Santanu Datta & V Balasubramanian

Founded 2014; antibiotic-resistance drug-discovery company developing GYROX, a novel broad-spectrum antibiotic targeting both Gram-negative and Gram-positive multidrug-resistant bacteria, advancing into clin...

Taher Abbasi & Shireen Vali

Founded ~2007; computational-biology / biosimulation company whose platform builds 'digital drug-model' simulations of patient biology to predict therapy response and personalise oncology treatment. Operates...

Sam Santhosh & V L Ramprasad

Founded 2013; South Asia's leading genomics/genetic-testing and research company (CAP & NABL-accredited lab) providing diagnostics, NGS-based clinical testing and research services, plus a major South Asian ...

Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Nelson Vadassery & team

Founded 2010 (IIT-Madras iGEM origin, Bengaluru HQ); ocean/marine-biotech company that mechanises large-scale tropical seaweed farming to produce bio-stimulants, bioplastics, animal-feed and renewable-chemic...

V Vijayasarathy, Ramesh Hariharan & others (IISc spin-out)

Founded 2000 as an IISc spin-out; genomics and computational-biology company providing NGS-based clinical diagnostics (oncology, hereditary disease) and bioinformatics platforms. One of India's pioneering ge...

Ezhil Subbian & Vinod Kumar

Founded 2013 (operations moved to Bangalore 2014). Industrial biotech using synthetic biology to convert methane/greenhouse gases into protein, agri-biostimulants and specialty ingredients via its String Int...

Aditya Kulkarni & Arun B Papaiah

Founded 2013; rare-disease drug-discovery company developing cyclodextrin-based and small-molecule therapeutics for high-unmet-need disorders (e.g., Niemann-Pick Type C). C-CAMP-incubated; an example of Beng...

Arindam Ghatak & team

Founded ~2017; air-decontamination biotech building the ZeBox device that captures and kills a broad spectrum of airborne microbes — relevant for hospitals, ICUs and clean environments (infection control). C...